Bible Reading
January 19
The World English Bible
Jan.
19
Genesis
19
Gen
19:1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of
Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with
his face to the earth,
Gen
19:2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into
your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will
rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we
will stay in the street all night."
Gen
19:3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered
into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and
they ate.
Gen
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of
Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from
every quarter.
Gen
19:5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men
who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have
sex with them."
Gen
19:6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
Gen
19:7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.
Gen
19:8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them
out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't
do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of
my roof."
Gen
19:9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This
one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a
judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They
pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
Gen
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the
house to them, and shut the door.
Gen
19:11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to
find the door.
Gen
19:12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here?
Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the
city, bring them out of the place:
Gen
19:13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against
them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy
it."
Gen
19:14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged
to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this
place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his
sons-in-law to be joking.
Gen
19:15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying,
"Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here,
lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
Gen
19:16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's
hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and
they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Gen
19:17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said,
"Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay
anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be
consumed!"
Gen
19:18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.
Gen
19:19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you
have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in
saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake
me, and I die.
Gen
19:20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one.
Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will
live."
Gen
19:21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of
which you have spoken.
Gen
19:22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get
there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Gen
19:23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Gen
19:24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire
from Yahweh out of the sky.
Gen
19:25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants
of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Gen
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
Gen
19:27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had
stood before Yahweh.
Gen
19:28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land
of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up
as the smoke of a furnace.
Gen
19:29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that
God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
Gen
19:30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his
two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived
in a cave with his two daughters.
Gen
19:31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old,
and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner
of all the earth.
Gen
19:32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
Gen
19:33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
Gen
19:34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to
the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us
make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that
we may preserve our father's seed."
Gen
19:35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger
went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she
got up.
Gen
19:36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
Gen
19:37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father
of the Moabites to this day.
Gen
19:38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He
is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Jan. 19, 20
Matthew 10
Mat 10:1 He called to
himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every
sickness.
Mat 10:2 Now the names
of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called
Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his
brother;
Mat 10:3 Philip;
Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of
Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Mat 10:4 Simon the
Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Mat 10:5 Jesus sent
these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, "Don't go among
the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city of the Samaritans.
Mat 10:6 Rather, go to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 10:7 As you go,
preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
Mat 10:8 Heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so
freely give.
Mat 10:9 Don't take any
gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.
Mat 10:10 Take no bag
for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the
laborer is worthy of his food.
Mat 10:11 Into whatever
city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay
there until you go on.
Mat 10:12 As you enter
into the household, greet it.
Mat 10:13 If the
household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't
worthy, let your peace return to you.
Mat 10:14 Whoever
doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house
or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
Mat 10:15 Most
certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom
and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Mat 10:16 "Behold,
I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as
serpents, and harmless as doves.
Mat 10:17 But beware of
men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their
synagogues they will scourge you.
Mat 10:18 Yes, and you
will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a
testimony to them and to the nations.
Mat 10:19 But when they
deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it
will be given you in that hour what you will say.
Mat 10:20 For it is not
you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Mat 10:21 "Brother
will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children
will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22 You will be
hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end
will be saved.
Mat 10:23 But when they
persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I
tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until
the Son of Man has come.
Mat 10:24 "A
disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
Mat 10:25 It is enough
for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like
his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how
much more those of his household!
Mat 10:26 Therefore
don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not
be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
Mat 10:27 What I tell
you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered
in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Mat 10:28 Don't be
afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.
Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in
Gehenna.
Mat 10:29 "Aren't
two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the
ground apart from your Father's will,
Mat 10:30 but the very
hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat 10:31 Therefore
don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Mat 10:32 Everyone
therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before
my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 10:33 But whoever
denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in
heaven.
Mat 10:34 "Don't
think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send
peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I came to
set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her
mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Mat 10:36 A man's foes
will be those of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He who loves
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves
son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 He who
doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.
Mat 10:39 He who seeks
his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will
find it.
Mat 10:40 He who
receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who
sent me.
Mat 10:41 He who
receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's
reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous
man will receive a righteous man's reward.
Mat 10:42 Whoever gives
one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the
name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose
his reward."
